Summary
The remote host is missing an update to ethereal
announced via advisory DSA 162-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20162-1
Insight
Ethereal developers discovered a buffer overflow in the ISIS protocol dissector. It may be possible to make Ethereal crash or hang by injecting a purposefully malformed packet onto the wire, or by convincing someone to read a malformed packet trace file. It may be possible to make Ethereal run arbitrary code by exploiting the buffer and pointer problems.
This problem has been fixed in version 0.9.4-1woody2 for the current stable stable distribution (woody), in version 0.8.0-4potato.1 for the old stable distribution (potato) and in version 0.9.6-1 for the unstable distribution (sid).
We recommend that you upgrade your ethereal packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2002-0834 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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